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Agricultural innovation and resilience in a long-lived early farming community: the 1,500-year sequence at Neolithic to early Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük, central Anatolia

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An Integrated Bioarchaeological Approach to the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’: A Case Study from Stafford, England, c.AD 800–1200

Ancient DNA typing indicates that the “new” glume wheat of early Eurasian agriculture is a cultivated member of the Triticum timopheevii group

scientific article published in 2020

Cereal progenitors differ in stand harvest characteristics from related wild grasses.

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Combining functional weed ecology and crop stable isotope ratios to identify cultivation intensity: a comparison of cereal production regimes in Haute Provence, France and Asturias, Spain

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Crop manuring and intensive land management by Europe's first farmers

scientific article published on 15 July 2013

Did greater burial depth increase the seed size of domesticated legumes?

scientific article published on 20 September 2013

Erratum to “Geometric morphometrics sheds new light on the identification and domestication status of ‘new glume wheat’ at Neolithic Çatalhöyük” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 142 (June 2022) 105599]

scientific article published in 2022

Fodder From Dung: the Recognition and Interpretation of Dung-Derived Plant Material from Archaeological Sites

scientific article published in June 1998

From Traditional Farming in Morocco to Early Urban Agroecology in Northern Mesopotamia: Combining Present-day Arable Weed Surveys and Crop Isotope Analysis to Reconstruct Past Agrosystems in (Semi-)arid Regions

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

Functional traits differ between cereal crop progenitors and other wild grasses gathered in the Neolithic fertile crescent

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How did the domestication of Fertile Crescent grain crops increase their yields?

scientific article published on 03 October 2016

Identification of inter- and intra-species variation in cereal grains through geometric morphometric analysis, and its resilience under experimental charring

scientific article published in October 2017

Identifying the intensity of crop husbandry practices on the basis of weed floras

scholarly article by Glynis Jones published in November 1999

Isotope evidence for agricultural extensification reveals how the world's first cities were fed.

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Manuring and stable nitrogen isotope ratios in cereals and pulses: towards a new archaeobotanical approach to the inference of land use and dietary practices

scientific article published in October 2011

Plants and Animals Together

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Private pantries and celebrated surplus: storing and sharing food at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia

scholarly article by Amy Bogaard published in September 2009

Re-analysis of archaeobotanical remains from pre- and early agricultural sites provides no evidence for a narrowing of the wild plant food spectrum during the origins of agriculture in southwest Asia.

scientific article published on 17 November 2018

Reduced plant water status under sub-ambient pCO2 limits plant productivity in the wild progenitors of C3 and C4 cereals

scientific article published on 29 August 2016

Stable Carbon Isotope Evidence for Neolithic and Bronze Age Crop Water Management in the Eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia

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The Archaeology of Fodder: Introduction

scientific article published in June 1996

The Effects of Irrigation on the Weed Floras of Winter Cereal Crops in Wadi Ibn Hamad (Southern Jordan)

article published in 2003

The origins of agriculture: Intentions and consequences

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Tolerating change at Late Chalcolithic Tell Brak: responses of an early urban society to an uncertain climate

scientific article published in October 2010

Unconscious selection drove seed enlargement in vegetable crops

scientific article published on 09 May 2017

Was low atmospheric CO 2 a limiting factor in the origin of agriculture?

scientific article published in October 2010

Were Fertile Crescent crop progenitors higher yielding than other wild species that were never domesticated?

scientific article published on 11 March 2015

What goes in does not always come out: The impact of the ruminant digestive system of sheep on plant material, and its importance for the interpretation of dung-derived archaeobotanical assemblages

scientific article published in February 2013

Yield responses of wild C3 and C4 crop progenitors to subambient CO2 : a test for the role of CO2 limitation in the origin of agriculture

scientific article published on 23 August 2016